Sleep Dear! Hold Me Tight Poem by Savita Tyagi

Now that the world has brushed me aside
Ambition to make a difference isn't mine
Plumes of youth fallen to dust
Body frail and longing hushed
I am so willing to fall in your arms
Sleep dear! Hold me tight
Let me wander in a land afar
Where loving hearts still come to greet
Some from the world of light
Others of gleaming earthly delight
All breaking the barriers of time and distance
I thank them all for that glad reunion
When sleep comes in installments
It charges dues from anxious mind
Forbidding entrance to that serene world
Where about of that I only wonder
How rejuvenating to clamp down on clamor
Move beyond REM and sleep spindles
Lose all awareness of thought and feeling
To see, hear or know nothing
To slide in that blissful ignorance!
Sleep dear! Be kind to me
Keep me in your gentle embrace
Let me recede beyond the deepest layers of subconscious
Offer that quiet ambiance of nonexistence more often!